Fatuma and Asya : Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia / director, Francesco Sincich.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sincich, Francesco, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Afar

English

Subjects (All):

Afar (African people)--Ethiopia.

Afar (African people).

Manners and customs.

Ethiopia.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 minutes)

Other Title:

Fatuma kee Asya : Etiopia Qafarih sayyoh nammayih mano

Place of Publication:

London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

In Afar.

Original language in Afar.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The film follows the daily life of two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), in two different areas of the Afar region in Ethiopia. It's dawn in the small camp of Walge. Fatuma wakes up in the morning and begins her usual homework as young girl of a family of nomad herders. She cleans, herds the goats, goes to the well with her father, but she has a worry on her mind: how to avoid the mandatory, traditional marriage and marry the boy she met some time ago, without breaking the tradition. The elders will discuss it, it's a sensitive subject. Far from Walge, in Angaliile, a large camp along the Awash river, Asya wakes up in her large tent. She is waiting with impatience for her marriage, but she suffers from the close presence of the Somali Issa, who steal the camp's livestock with the complicity of the federal police. Will a solution be found?

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).

OCLC:

954043201